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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31
HOW A WOMAN READS.

According to Gertrude Garrison, this
is how she reads paper: She takes it up
| hurriedly and begins to scan it over rapid-
~, as though she were hunting some par
ticular thing, but she is not. She is
merely taking in the obscure paragraphs.
which, she believes, were put in out-of-
the-way places for the sake of keeping
her from seeing them. As she finishes
each one her countenance brightens with
the comfortable reflection that she has
outwitted the editor and the whole race
of men, for she cherishes a belief that
newspapers are the enemies of her sex.
and editors her chief oppressors. She
never reads the head lines, and the large
telegraph lines she never sees She is
greedy for local news and devours it with
the keenest relish. Marriages and deaths
are always interesting reading to her. and
advertisements are exciting and stimulat-
ing. She cares but little for printed Jokes
unless they reflect ridicule upon the men,
and then she delights in them.
She pays particular attention to any
thing inclosed in quotation marks, and
considers it rather better authority than
anything first handed. The columns in
which the editor airs his opinions, in
loaded hifalutin, she rarely reads Views
are of no Importance in her estimation,
but facts are everything. She generally
reads the poetry. Sine doesn't ALWAYS
care for 1t, but makes a practice of read
ing it, because she thinks she ought TO.
She reads stories and sketches and para
graphs indiscriminately, and believes ev-
cry word of them. Finally. after she has
read all she intends to, she lays the paper
down with an air OF disappointment and
half-contemptuous gesture, which says
very plainly that she thinks all newspa-
pers miserable failures, but is certain that
II she had a chance she could make the
only perfect newspaper the world has
ever seen.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31
SOME STATIONERY COMETS.

Often in the winter there may be
seen in the gas region, far up in the
sky at night one OF more faint white
streaks, six or eight feet long. They
look like comets. and the first one
seen was quite generally mistaken
for a comet. Each one of these is
caused by burning gas-wen. The
light Of the well shines upon the
small ice-crvstals which often are
floating in the air, far above US, and
is by them reflected, or thrown down
again, so that we see it, though the
gas-well may be many miles from US.
Every well furnishes but one 'Ecom-
et,'-as we may call it, for want of
better name,-which always APP
pears in the same place. When the
lower air also is filed with ice-crys-
tails, we see not the comets, but great
fiery streaks, the complete reflection 5
that reach from the points where the
comets We're, down across the
sky to the horizon at the points where
we see the glare of the distant gas
well.
They stand out against the dark
background, like great, fiery rods, a
central bright streak, or spine, run
ming through them, which shades off
into beautiful glowing red on each
side. They are regular in shape, ap-
parently about twenty inches wide,
the sides straight, the top slightly
rounded, and the bottom fading away
as it reaches the flame. in the glare
Of the well.
No description or pictures of these
comets and fiery columns can give a
true idea of their strange beauty,
which does not become commonplace
by reason of a regular, every day
or, rather, every night-appearances
as THESE pneuOHleud are NlSIOle only
under certain favorable conditions.
Those still, chilly nights, when the
sky has a hazy appearance, when a
few scattering flakes of crisp, dry,
snow may be futtering down, are the
nights upon which the finest displays
are seen: and several nights may in
tervene between these curious and
beautiful exhibitions. Sometimes the
comets will appear directly overhead
and the fiery columns often reach to
a great height, depending, Of course,
on the distance of the observer from
the source of illumination. Recently
the top Of one of these reflections was
estimated to be six and a half miles
above the burning well.-,St Nicholas.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31

Investigations made by the Gin
cinnati Chamber of commerce show
that during the year ending August
81, 1855, there was consumed In
Cincinnati, including Covington.
Newport, and other suburbs, 553.-
$50 barrels, or 1913, j35 gallons of
malt liquors, or 1900 gallons per
day. For this liquor the Price Cur
rent estimates that the people paid
about SIC, 200, 900, or s27.4OO per
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31
dlouths' Column.
BORING FOB GAS.

Boring for gas is exactly like Dor
inc for oil, in all its working but the
Interpretation of pumping and pack
inc. as in the case of some oil-wells
to raise the oil. are not necessary in
gas-wells. If the gas is there, it will
come up of its own free will and ac-
cord. and come with a rush, blowing
tools and everything else out of the
well before it. Indeed, gas men
would often be as glad to keep their
treasure down as oil men are to get
theirs up. The great pressure at
which it is confined in the earth, and
the corresponding force with which it
escapes from the well, make it some
what hard to manage or control.
This pressure is enormous-as high
as FIVE hundred pounds to the square
inch in some places where it has been
gagged. In the great McGugin well,
which was not gagged, the pressure
Is estimated to have reached eight
hundred pounds to the square inch.
ANY attempt to cOnfine the gas IN
this well for the purpose of measur-
inc it would doubtless have resulted
in sending the iron casing flying from
the well, or in producing other effects
more startling and costly than salts
factory or agreeable. Indeed, until
recently, no plan had been devised
by which the flow of gas from well
could be stopped or reduced. The
quantity of gas that escapes from
some wells is enormous, but probably
no correct estimate of it has yet been
made. Where the gas is ''piped'
away to mills and houses, all that
comes from the well may be used
but if it is not all used, the remain
der must be allowed to escape into
the air. This is done at the regula-
tor. where it is burned. The regula-
tor is an arrangement of pipes and
valves, placed between the gas-wel
and the town supplied with the gas.
1t allows only just as much gas as is
being burned in the town to 90 on
through the pipes, and so reduces to
a proper and safe point the danger
ously high pressure of the gas as it
comes rushing along from the well.
The temperature of the gas as it
comes from the wells is about forty
five degrees. Fahrenheit.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31
WINCHESTER'S

HYPOPHOSPHITE OF LIME AND SODA
is a matchless Remedy for Consumption
in every Stage OF the disease. For Coughs,
WAX Lungs, Throat Diseases, Loss al Flesh
and Appetite and all forms of G:eneTnt DebiliIy
it is nequaled Specific Remedy HS-BE SURE
AND GET WINCHESTER'S PREPARATION. y and
TER * CO, No. - Dew street. New York.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31
THE SALOON AND THE
FAMILY.

There is no evil which operates so
directly and with such disastrous po-
tency against the family as the sa
loon. 1t is the direct enemy of do
mestic happinesr,. purity and peace.
Even in its mildest manifestations
it alienates men from their homes :;
creates in them habits of selfish in
diligence gives them sensual inter
ests apart; brings into competition
with the innocent recreations Of
the home circle coarse, vulgar and
eXtravagant amusements. In its
more pronounced operations, it stops
at no trifes as the production of mere
discomfort, but, proceeding without
disguise, turns men into wild beasts
and then lets them loose upon their
families. What makes this especial
" shocking is that we are all ac-
quainted with its truth, yet we have
hitherto tolerated it passively. The
horrors to which drink exposes wom-
en- are worse than those of slavery.
Much has been written of late years
about the alleged quickening Of SEN
sibility, the enlargement of humani-
tartan tendencies, the revolt against
cruelty in all its manifestations. Is
there not danger of the moral afro
ply engendered by self conceit, when
illusions so fattering can co-exist
with the actual life we are living
Familiarity with evil must have blind
ed US alarmingly when we can seri-
ously believe that we have reached a
real height of reform that we have at
tanned a stage of civilization pure
enough to be proud of that there is
special need for concern because of
the sins that do most easily beset
us.-Atlantic Monthly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31
us.-Atldntic Monthly.

The revenue officers of the state of
Maine have caused CONSERVATION
among Lewiston druggists by having
them arrested for acting as rectifers
without license. For long time a
drink known as ''split'' has been
concocted and sold. 1t is alcohol
refined and one-half, sweetened with
a little syrup and colored to resem-
BILE whiskey. The penalty to the
offence charged is six mouths in jail
or 81 900 fine.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31

James S. Murphy, NJ. D., Companys Shops,
c., writes q sell great deal OF DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup, for every who tries it likes it -
''There are more things in heaven and earth, Ho-
ratio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" OF
course! Why those old buffers suffered horribly
with aches and pains, and uidn't and couldn't know
that Salvation Oil would cure them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31
A Hsz CONSERVATIVE.

Have Won Cough. Bronchitis Asthma IndiRestoni Use
RARkEG'S TONIC without delay. 1t has cured
many OF worst and Is the best remedy for all
affections of the throat and lungs, and diseases airing
from impure blood and exhaustion Tie feeble and sick
struggling against disease, and slowly drifting 70 the
in health timely
of PARKERs To'IC but delay is dangerous AXE t
in time Cures when all else fails. Gives life and
strength to the aged and inirnn- 81 at Druggists.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31
Dauchy * Co.'S. AdvstS.
Please Don't Forget 1t.

That DR.. b. James Cannabts Indica is prepared in
Calcutta, India, from the purest and best Native
Hemp, and is the only remedy; either in that coun-
try or this, that it will positively and permanently
cure CORsumption, G}IOHchiti-, Asthma, Ma
siIi GGttafrh and Nervous Dehi iIy. or break up
a cold in u hours. $3.50 per bottle, three bottles
Sc 80. Craddock & Co. I032 Race st Phia.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31

WITH 111P0-I- I0 OI-Us0a ODUBAsi
Colds, Pleurisy, Rheumatism. Pneumonia, Neural
gia, sciatica, Luinhago, Backacbe and other all
ments, for which B-nson's Capclne Pasfers are adj
mitted to be the best remedy known. They relieve
and cure M a few hours when no other ppiicntion
Is Of the least benefit Endorsed by 1000 PHYSICIANS
and Druggists Beware of imifa ions under similar
sounding names, such "Capsicnm, 81 apsieiu''
'.Capscine " Ask for BensOn's and Ike no
others Examine carefully when you bay. All
druggists.
SEABURY 81 JOHNSON, Proprietors n ew York
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31
THE WASTE OF DRINK.

Mrs. j. L. PERKINS.
President Vermont W. c. I. u
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31
Christmas is Coming,

And we shall be at home ready to show the larg.
and prettiest stock Of Fancy Glassware and
China in town.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05
Married.

NAeLE-CAREY. The social even, /
Rutland of this winter was the marrlsg
OF Richard Maple, of Grand Rapids, an
Miss AnRie. youngest daughter of Mr.
John Carey, on Tuesday, Feb. 29d, at S
COLUMBIA church by tht Rev. Father Ryan
The bride was attended by her sistei
Miss Nellie, and the groOms best ma.
Was Mr.. John Fenton, cousin Of the groom
The bride looked her very best, In blu
silk and plush trimmings; while Ii
groom wore brown suit, and looked rt
markably we'll. The reception at L
BRIDES home that evening was attende
by host OF frieuds, who wish Mr.. Ne
gle and bride a long and happy life
The presents we're numerous and beauti
full 1t Is but simple justice to state tbs
Miss Annie was one Of the handsomes
and most amiable young ladies in Ru'
land, while Richard Is one Of Grand Raj
ids most substantial young men. The
went direct to their home In Grand RAP
Ids and settled down to the sober realiae
of life and the pleasant realities OF maj
ried life. We wish them JOY and hap
plness and long and prosperous life
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05

,o, mill last fall that the enemies OF MOT
rison finally caught the weasel as'''P'
Knowing the temper Of his district anu
trusting implicitly In bis former SUI u''
jority, Morrison careles'ly gave his a',e"'
lion 20 weakened fences In other d''''''''
while the euemy--the innumrra"I" h"'"'
Of Ononduga salt, copper mine, Inhpe''
i,on, coal and cotton monopolists 't'ir"!
with thousand OF dollars and purchased
tramp yo,es--invaded his district ana ny
about hundred votes "lald him 70 he
land" Never In the history Of American
elec,iOneering chicanery was there more
das,ardly 81 10 than this delea, Of M"rri'
son by the tariff mongers, and never Was
the unscl righteousness ol the corrupt ana
greedy crow more villainously exemp!lheu'
And II Is this man, thus temporarily and
dlsgraceiully driven 10 the wall, that the
Journal sneers at as played out ana de'
cayed politician A man In his prime
Intellectually q, his zeni,h-not less con
spicuons for his shining ability than the
purity Of his life and intensity OF his pat
rlotism-it Is such man whose appoint
ment TO second rate Office like that oi
railroad commissioner would be "disrep'
u,able jobr Happy would 1t be Tor the
country II none bu, men Of his grade we're
placed upon that important commission
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05
THE NEW PARTY.

Cincinnati WAS al interested spectator last
week of convention of greenbackers
Henry Georges followers, labor agitatOrs
and other com binatloRs OF political docti
naires whose business 1t was to organize d
new National Party" that should wipe
away the political and social aims OF this
glorious land of liberty and a protective
tariff. The followers Of Henry George
however, met with knock down In the
very first round, and Mr.. George who had
gone 10 the city to watch the movements
from seat In the gallery, departed at the
end of the fret day, convinced that his pei
design Of abolIshing land titles had no part
or place, even In such gathering of politi.
cal and social uncentain quantities.
During the three or four days 10 which
the convention was In session, pretty much
every conceivable topic, living or dead, re-
ceived an airing more OF less elaborate
but on Wednesday platform was adopted
II says discontsnt prevails ON the part OF
the wealth producers; farmers are suffer.
Ing from poverty: labor Is sinking Into de
tendency; business men find collections
I'm possible, and yet the treasurey Il full Of
money, &C., &c, that the fisheries dispute
IL made preteYt for tae squsndering OF
millions on needless amendments 70 empty
the treasury and net pay the public debt
which, according 10 the notion Of the coo.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05

Til re- Is brutality about the persisten nj
abuse Of the County Treasurer by certain
local Sa,ani. sheet that Is justly beginning
to excite general Indignation, The assaults
are directed agslns' both the late aud the
present County Treasurer, and In ether
case are as gratultous as malig ant The
late Treasurer, after having served the pc
pie Of the county In yar!Ous important aud
responsible positions with exceptional iidel
lily tor over thirty years, and maintained
throughout u spOtless record, ought be
exempt, 10 his declining days ana when NJ
longer public smplt.e, from these Aeud
ish assaults, and the present Treasurer
whe Is stretched upon u red OF sickness
and for weeks past has been lowering be
tween life and death, ought, at least while
the slightest mental excitement naturally
arising from n consciousness Of per eel
rec,ituie yet total physical inability "a
make needed explanations, If called for, &c
Le spared such wholly undeservS! and Ia
his present condition dangerous brutality
The Office and duties Of the County
Treasurer are SO purely and strictly mat
ters of figures, and every act capable of be
Ing tried by the unering rules of mathe
mathics, that every wrong he does n erro'
he con mits, tc the last half penny, Is al
ways open to detection by any competen
accountant and bookReeper, and until thu
books and accounts OF the County Treas
urer, pas, OF present, have been sui mitteo
to such scrutiny 1t Is an indecency ant
an outrage to indulge In such whell!
groundless and unprovoked assaults.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05

II has recently been rumored that gre,
frauds have been committed Ia the coui
OF the ballots cast in Coles county at II
last election, by which the entire Dem
cratic ticket was counted out and the II,
publican tickle, counted In. The attei
,ion Of the United States jury at Sprin,
ield has been called to the matter, and
Is now being investigated. The prob'
bilitles are that some leading Republican
OF Coles county will be implicated. "L'
no guilty man escape" whatever his pa
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05
yeu,iou, Is the great block In the way Oh 'n'
dustrial progress'

uustiia p"b'
The legal enactmen,s asked Tor are
n, Graduated land taxes; opening o' 'n'
OKlabsma lands To settlement; irrigation
\, public expense; and the usual Restriction
Of land holding by corporations
70, Governmental owership OF 'ranspof
ts,lon lines. ,o
u, PAYMENT Of the public debt and pro
h,h,,lon of interest bearing On bond Issues
and a national monetary system 10 tue III
,sres, of the producer Instead Of the specr
lator."
"a Arbitration should take the place o'
strikes and other injurious mesheds OF set
ding labor disputes the letting oil con''c'
Labor 10 contractors be prohibited; the con
tract system be abolished In public works
the hours Of labor In industrial establish
ments be reduced, commensurate with the
increase Of production 10 lAborsavlng ma
chlnery; employees be protected from ooa
fly injury, equal pay being given ,or edua
work for both sexes, aud .abOr, agricultural
and cooperative associations be fos'ereC
and incorporated by law.
(5) Pigment of soldiers and sailors OIL
q gold basis.
90 An income tax.
a. Election OF senators by the people
~ The exclusion Of the Chinese
t9) Prohibition Of the employment u
armed men by private corporations
100 Universal suffrage
an Temperance reform
The meeting closed on wednesday
amid great enthusiasm, which Seems
T., have cooled of to an unmodera''
degree. The greenback executive
committee will continue their OF
Plantations, but will ask their party TO co
opern,e with the new party just Launched
into the political arena.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05

the feeder below the gates 81 that no Wal,
could pass II the gates were open, then,
the nams OF common sense, why we're Il
State men set al work Monday cutting Il
canal bank one mile down the feed
where there was no wafer and none coul
be got II his statement Was true' There
IN adage, that "of all men, liars ought
have good memories, or ought TO ha,
reason enough 10 see where their sta,
ments convict themselves al.
Respectfully, WM THOMAS.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05

The G., B Il q railroad has been not
fed from Washington that II would |
given sixty days To show cause why leg
proceedings should not DO instituted ,
recover It's lands In Nebraska ain exec,
of the quantity TO which it's entitled" an
also why the tracts north Of its detini'
location should not be cancelled. Oy,
100000 acres of land are involved.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05
Current Events.
Foreign News.

Ths new German R-lchstag was opened
an THURSDAY The EmperoIs speech eh
messed eradication AT the "lriendliness o.
The Pope To the Emp''e;' and 'nat the 81, Ct
forts of the government 20 maintain the
pesce of Europe had been 81 Thoroughly
approved by his subjects The "iiuslop .e
,h. army bill was enthusiastically ap
plauded. ox,s, !,
What chances for war may now exist, u
Is believed will show themselves IN the
the Eas', aud not in the West OF Europe
London Times specials from Vienna point
out difficulties between Russia aud As
tria, and Information from the Tar Eas'
shows that Russia l. concentrating AN al my
NJ fnl,y 900 900 men In Central Asia Rus
Alan Poland Is also described asa vast Rus
sian camp; while at the English war office
the opinion is gaining ground that kussit
means Simultaneous operations against
Bulgaria aud Afghanls'un.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05
Masonic InsfructioA.

A large and respectable body Of men, fro"
different parts Of the state, about two hun
dred and fifty in number, met in Masonic
hall, on Tuesday, and have been engaged In
daily session in s1smplifying the secret
work Of the order, o spectacle, however In
teresting. from Witnessing which We outside
barbarians are debarred. Among the lead
ing Masons present, are: Grand Mas'er'
Alex. T. Darrah, Of Bloomington; Grand
sec'y. L. L. Mum, Of Freeport; Deputy
Grand Masters, Ashley. Scott, Dit, Houston
Gunther and Milligan. The instructors were
Edward Cook, Chicago; NJ. D. Chamberlain
Freeport; W. B. Grimes, Pittsheld; james
Douglas, Chester; and Chorles Tenney, Be
ment.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05

wrLI.-wm. L. Milligan Is getting to be
one Of the most conspicuous ussons In this
country. He has recently received bis com
mi.sisn Is Grand Representative OF The
Grand Lodge Of Australia. 1t gill Be in or
der for him to read up in the language snd
..hrouss" Of that far of settlement.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05

And now that the c., b. + Q. has pr
pared prcnouncing dictionary, It may b
expected that the tralnmen will pronounc
correctly the names of towns they cs
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-05

A BLAzE.-On Saturday evening last, al
$50 o'clock, in the midst Of the fereest
blizzard, the fremen were called out to CUB
due small blaze in Glenn and Murphy's
wooden buildings, on Court street The
cause was defective chimney in Gle'n :
upper room. The building is an old frame
structure, and is, strictly speaking,
not an ornament to the city. II is two sto-
ries high, on one side Gleim's barber shop,
and the other Mike Formulas saloon. bs'h
places were full Of people at tho time, and
soon bucket brigade was organised and the
fire kept we'll in hand a couple Of minu'es'
until the engine was playing, with two geed
streams. The escape of the fire from the
building might have been fatal to hall ne
city, but the FIRE laddies did nobly. The LOGS
to Glenn was, perhaps, $3.50, and the same
to Murphy, who owns the south half OF The
building, and to Formulas, who owns 'he
saloon